In Praise of Shadows’ second track will hopefully be a nice surprise to anyone who fell in love with Four Beast, One Immortal and the rest of Einhander’s ferocious, twisted NRG. He’s back, and I’m honoured that Einhander has agreed to make both a return to NRG and his first official release on Thank You For The Horse.

I can honestly say that I love every track on the compilation, but Storm Coming has to be very close to the top of the list. The aggression, industrial percussion and crazed filters couldn’t be better, and even the intro/outro is a step above most NRG tracks. Playing after Alek Szahala at CODEX last year, there’s a reason I used Storm Coming as the opener – even unmastered it laid down a marker that kept the crowd with me from the start.

As an aside, massive thanks to everyone for the support on the TYFTH Facebook page. It was so encouraging to see how enthusiastic everyone is for the release, and I just want to get things finished up as soon as possible. I’ve gone ahead and said a ‘summer’ release date, which whether it ends up being next month or August is almost certainly doable.

See you tomorrow for track 3!